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A Sonnet To Google Wave

A Sonnet To Google Wave

I love Lars. I also love Google Wave. So when I went to sign up for a beta invite, and I was wondering what quirky thing to write to heighten my chances of getting an invite sooner, I saw that “Haikus, sonnets and ASCII art all accepted”… “Wonderful!” Thought I, and after 5 minutes of [...]

Free Brand Seminar in Exeter, 15th July

I just got this from @albrooking : RT @AlderandAlder: ‘What’s your brand & why is it valuable?’. Free #brand seminar in Exeter. 15 July. http://tinyurl.com/qnqbbl I’d recommend any Exeter or in-the-area people and / or businesses to get along. It’s being run by local agency Alder and Alder. If you know of any more local [...]

That Certain Something Else

That Certain Something Else

If you ever want to get inspired, watch any of the TED talks. It doesn’t matter which one I watch, I end up wanting to work with that person because their passion and drive emanates across the medium of video and touches the desires within me to cause change and transformation in this world. When [...]

Introducing Mrs. Gould

Introducing Mrs. Gould

It’s hard to know where to start. If I started from the beginning, I wouldn’t finish. But if I don’t say how it began, then you won’t know just how precious she is. I guess I’ll start with the vital statistics. A praying woman. Blonde bombshell. A very insightful wife. A Youth worker and number-two [...]

How GTD Rescued Me

How GTD Rescued Me

Jesus saved my soul. GTD saved my future. Really, it did. When started working at church at 19 I had no office experience. And although in my melancholic, creative nature there is an obsessive and meticulous organiser within me, unfortunately I have historically had a nasty habit of never implementing a system because I could [...]

Lessons from the Exeter Twitterati

Lessons from the Exeter Twitterati

One of the greatest things about Exeter is the number of Twitter users. A search on Twellow.com yields a list of around 200 users which is pretty big for a city of Exeter’s size. And we’re not just any old bunch of 200 Twitter users – we have some really great people who are leading [...]

Early Memories of Design Fascination

Early Memories of Design Fascination

I remember being in my first year at school and seeing a group of boys build a boat using Lego. “Idiots” I thought, as they built columns of the ships hull one brick directly on top of another. “They should crisscross them like they do with houses”. Then the insult came: their boat was displayed [...]

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